# ATS Jobs API – Academic Papers Search

> ATS Jobs API – Academic Papers Search is a paid API for AI agents from ats-jobs-api.groundtruthtools.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Searches and retrieves academic papers by DOI or text query, returning metadata including authors, citations, open-access URLs, and abstracts

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ats-jobs-api.groundtruthtools.workers.dev/x402/v1/papers?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ats-jobs-api-academic-papers-search-a4991810
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wtL2UeQ_FPXN6AKHMTmiF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ats-jobs-api-academic-papers-search-a4991810
```

Example prompt: Search for academic papers about transformer neural networks and tell me their titles, authors, citation counts, and whether they're open access.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured academic paper metadata including citation counts, open-access links, and abstracts retrieved directly from scholarly databases. Note: despite the service name suggesting job postings, the actual response schema and URL path ('/papers') indicate this endpoint serves academic paper search functionality.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'input' object returns validation error
- Invalid DOI format returns no matches
- Ambiguous or overly broad query may return large result sets with low relevance
- Payment failure returns 402 if USDC balance is insufficient
- Rate limits or server errors return 5xx responses

## How this service works

Open job postings read first-hand from the applicant-tracking system behind a company's careers page: Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever or Workable. Includes a directory of 8532 company job boards, because none of the vendors publishes one. Salaries are parsed into numbers where the employer publishes them and refused where ambiguous. No personal data.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with mode ('search' or 'lookup'), count, total_matches, and an array of papers each containing DOI, title, abstract, open-access URL, verification URL, OpenAlex ID, author names, citation count, open-access status, and publication year.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "dois": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "mode": "search",
  "count": 1,
  "papers": [
   {
    "doi": "10.1038/nature14539",
    "title": "Deep learning",
    "oa_url": null,
    "abstract": "Deep learning allows computational models that are composed of multiple processing layers...",
    "verify_url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539",
    "openalex_id": "W2919115771",
    "author_names": [
     "Yann LeCun",
     "Yoshua Bengio",
     "Geoffrey Hinton"
    ],
    "cited_by_count": 70000,
    "is_open_access": false,
    "publication_year": 2015
   }
  ],
  "total_matches": 18234,
  "matched_entity": null
 }
}
```

## More

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- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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